I find it funny how the managers I work with find it hard to believe I actually know anything about music.My job is to find acts and book them. Yet when I do find something great to come play they won't let me write it in the diary, they say I must "Run it by them first". Yet this is my job, where is the trust and respect.I've bought in shite loads of custom for them, countless gigs and Thousands upon thousands of pounds. I've been here since april last year, I run the open mic, I run the music and bartend..yet still no respect?Literally no respect, especially after everything i've done for them and i've been through in my life.I think it's bullshite, luckily I have a truly great job lined up at the end of february, So they can go fuck them selves.I just get used here.So onto bigger and better things.I'm hoping to get back to you guys soon, As soon as I get my new flat, i'll get back my xbox live gaming.Also, Patrick!I'll be seeing you very soon my friend!! Finally getting to meet one of you guys, Get over to England!Ibanez x

I've got a job at last!Working in a warehouse, boring stuff but it pays gooood! Also means I don't have to bother with stupid customers anymore. So when I get some cash together,I'll get a tv and Internet here and be back online. Hope your all well,Missing you all loads!!Ibanez x

SO yeah, i've been slacking in my journals.I got here 2 days ago...I am totally loving it.Went down a range yesterday..first time i've fired in 4 years..i'll post my grouping..i still have it.Done loads of cool shit...but I want to make it COOLER.If you live near tampa/orlando/miami, let me know! Lets meet up for a drink sometime..I'm here till the 24th.Drop me a line!

Bloody confusing is a simplistic way of putting it. Add on top of that the fact that I also send students abroad, so I have to have a decent knowledge of how to get visas for other countries (or not, as Americans have some leeway in that matter, but I don't always just send Americans abroad) AND I live in Michigan, so I have to be a mini-Canadian visa expert as well, because we are so close to the border. But, I love that part of my job, at least when the people I'm talking to aren't just being lazy wankers who refuse to do the google search themselves (read: professors who think they have better things to do with their time but still want to travel).

Now, out of a greater curiosity, I'm going to read through the O visa stuff again - I only read it the first time, because I'm pretty sure it is the visa foreign hockey players in the NHL start out on, and I had a big question at my first professional hockey game about what visa status they were in (like I said - I'm a geek for my job). The big key, since they are leaving you on your own, is to work with the embassy to make sure you are requesting a type of visa you can request without input/work from the employer.

Clearly, talking to you is going to bring all the British slang back into my vocab - maybe I should be careful. ;)

I wish you luck good young sir - you have a valid reason for needing to be in this country to work. I just hope my government (rat bastards they can be) don't screw you over for no very good reason, like they have a tendency to do.

My curiosity mainly went into whether they were helping you get an H-1B (there is actually a very big amount of work/cost involved with the employer on this one) or if your talent qualified you for an O visa. I forgot about the L (of the three, possibly the one I know least about, but have the most information accessible in my house).

I work at a university, and mainly deal with student/visitor visas (F-1 and J-1) but had to brush up on basics of LPR (green card) to sit in on some meetings with our non-citizen professors. LPR is tricky and time consuming, and you usually start that while you are on one of the other types of visa. My knowledge of H-1B is periphery (many of my students change from F-1 to H-1B after they graduate, so I know some basics) and my knowledge of the O visa comes mostly from curiosity flipping through some of our advising the advisors materials.

My word is only personal interpretation, but I have access to some resources or may be able to point you in the direction of some good answers if you have some questions during the process. I've become pretty adept at 1) finding the actual code of law expressing the rules of the visa categories and 2) finding the best advice from people who have been there before.

However, if your employer and/or their attorney is helping you, you definitely should listen to them over me. :) But I'd be glad to act as a sounding board, because I know this stuff can get really confusing at times. American visa law has a path that is about at as easy to follow as a plate of cooked spaghetti.

Ok smarty pants, based upon your images of what british vs. American style is, I will tell you that I dress more like you than Americans. However regardless of how stupid those "Americanized style" guys look you cannot deny that there are certainly some stupid looks in the British style. Make a note to some of the dudes in those pictures that your pants are supposed to sit at the top of the shoes, maybe and little shorter, but they shouldn't be capri pants.

Funny thing is that he went out last night and once i got off work at 4 am I met up with him...guess it was like we knew we had to celebrate lol. How u been dude? It's been forever since I caught up with everyone.

peace and quiet......infact too fucking quiet!!!!..... what the fuck are you upto?....you sneaky slimy stinky maggot! what maniacal plan are you cooking up now?give me a buzz when you see thisAaron out

Ibanez (or till as i like to call him) you are indeed one of my best buddies if not my best buddy, now i have done the gooie shit im goin to be a basterd, right you left nut of ball sack with a maggot on your forehead whats the plan this weekend? let me know asap i feel like killing and teabagging for old times sake

Okay all joking aside, I really am looking forward to you getting Fable 3 because I cannot wait to try out the coop. I played all last night and it is amazing, I really think you are going to enjoy it. When you pick up the game we are going to have to coop imidiately unless you want a little single player exp but we must try it out.

just wanted to let you know man, I downloaded that Ocean version you have on youtube and put it on my ipod. Several of my friends liked it so much that they put it on theirs as well. So far 14 of us have it on Cd's or on our mp3 players. You're badass man, keep playing.